Camomile

Create audio plugins with Pure Data patches.

Presentation

Camomile is a meta plugin with Pure Data embedded that allows creating audio plugins that load and control Pure Data patches inside digital audio workstations. Camomile supports the VST3, LV2 and Audio Unit plugin formats on Windows, Linux and macOS.

Instruction

The latest stable release of Camomile is available for download along with all previous versions on the releases page. The Camomile distribution provides sample plugins that can be used directly in digital audio workstations. The wiki pages offer documentation to install plugins on your computer, generate plugins with patches and create patches for audio plugins.

Compilation

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile.git
cd Camomile
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. (the generator can be specified using -G"Unix Makefiles", -G"Xcode" or -G"Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64)
cmake --build .

Important:

• Please ensure that the git submodules are initialized and updated! You can use the --recursive option while cloning or git submodule update --init --recursive in the Camomile repository .
• On Linux OS, Juce framework requires to install dependencies, please refer to Linux Dependencies.md and use the full command.
• The CMake build system have been tested with Unix Makefiles, XCode and Visual Studio 16 2019.

Organization

• CICM
• Université Paris 8

Author

• Pierre Guillot

Credits

• Pure Data by Miller Puckette and others
• libpd by the Peter Brinkmann, Dan Wilcox and others
• Juce by ROLI Ltd.
• MoodyCamel by Cameron Desrochers
• LV2 PlugIn Technology by Steve Harris, David Robillard and others
• VST PlugIn Technology by Steinberg Media Technologies
• Audio Unit PlugIn Technology by Apple
• Juce LV2 interface by Filipe Coelho
• Console icons by Gregor Cresnar
• CMake by Andy Cedilnik, Bill Hoffman, Brad King, Ken Martin, Alexander Neundorf
• Images of the plugin's examples are copyrighted by their respective comics publishers. Dupuis for the Bulgroz and AlmondOrgan plugins and Casterman for the Castafiore plugin. For further information, read this issue.

Papers

• LAC 2018 - Camomile: Creating audio plugins with Pure Data
• JIM 2018 - Camomile, enjeux et développements d’un plugiciel audio embarquant Pure Data.